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UNITED STATE PATENT @rrrcE.

LOUIS M. BROOK, on BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

REVERSIBLE ,PANTALOONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 238,275, dated March 1, 1881. Application filed June 10, 1880. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LOUIS M. BROOK, of

Buffalo, in the county ofErie and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gentlemens Garments, being Reversible Trousers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to trousers, otherwise called pantaloous, which, by being made as hereinafter described, can be worn either side out-that is, reversiblethe object being to have, in efl'ect, two pairs of pantaloous in one, both sides of the cloth or cloths being either of diiferent patterns or the same, or of different face, or texture, or color, as may be desired, so that either way they may be worn, or with either side out, they will present a perfect pair of trousers, that will not in appearance be different from others usually worn and the invention consists in making trousers reversible, so that either side shall in itself be a perfect pair, as hereinafter fully described.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of -the waistband, &c., showing the method of using the straps and buckle on both sides the cloth Fig. 2, perspective of a pair of trousers, showing the fly, one side partlyin section; Fig. 3, detail of the double fly apart Fig. 4, detail, in longitudinal section, ofthesin gle pocket with double openings into them Fig. 5, double button, and Fig. 6 a detail of the double fly buttoned together; Fig. 7, detail of reversible pocket.

A represents the trousers or pantaloous, as they are variously called, and which will be made ofdouble-faced goods, or two thicknesses of cloth, if preferred, and without linings in any part or springs in the bottom, the seams throughout all lapped and felled over, so that they look alike on both sides, the bottoms to be either corded and felled or bound, to present a finished appearance either side.

The back-strap a and buckle-strap bare constructed as usual; but to make them available on the reverse side when the trousers are turned, I make two slits or openings, 0 c, in the back of the trousers, close to where the straps to b are sewed to the trousers, and when they are turned the straps are each put through the slits, so that their ends appear on the other side. A

suitable buckle on a swivel-which will turn so as to present the teeth properly-will be used. The usual waist-buttons will be sewed on both sides of the waistband g, or else holes will be made and a double button, B, (see Fig. 5,) in the nature of an enlarged stud, will be used instead.

I arrange the pockets, either or all, to open from both sides, as follows: A patch-pocket, d, is sewed onto one side of the stuff. This gives an opening, f, and a pocket for one side. On the other side an opening is made by cutting the cloth across, as shown in dotted lines at :10, leaving the edge as, and sewing onto the top of the part a a short piece, 6, which is fastened at both sides to the trousers, leaving the top f open. To the lower part of the edge :10 is sewed a short piece, as, which makes the necessary depth of division, thus giving a single pocket with an opening therein for either side of the trousers. By this means the usual side, hip, or top pockets can be employed on both sides.

The main difficulty to overcome in making a pair of pantaloous reversible is the fly, and so as to always button leftover right, as usual. This is done and constructed as follows: Both sides of the fly are double-that is, the lefthand side is made as usual, except that, in addition, under the button-hole slip h, and exactly opposite each button-hole t, is sewed a button, t", not in the fly part, but to the cloth of the trousers. (See Fig. 3.) The opposite fly part, h, is also double, the inside part presentin g the smooth surface of the cloth,'so that when the trousers are reversed this side It is then the left-hand part and the side j is the front. As shown in Figs. 2 and 3, j is the inside part, being the inside of the cloth; and 70, an added fly part, having the usual buttonholes, and through which the fly-buttons 1' are buttoned. (See more particularly Fig. 3, side h The trousers are now ready for buttoning, as in Fig. 2. (Shown with the outside piece removed.) The buttons i on the side It, already through one set of button-holes, as in Fig. 3, must now be buttoned additionally through the fly h of the opposite side, as in Fig. 6, where they will be covered by the outside part of the cloth j, as usual. Therefore when the fly is buttoned there is always four thicknesses of cloth, two on each side, and each set of buttons goes through two fly-pieces when the pants are buttoned left over right,whichever side of the trousers is out.

0, Fig. 7, represents a reversible pocket, that is turned inside out with the trousers.

By this simple construction I have overcome the hitherto considered impossibility of making a pair of trousers reversible.

I clairn 1. In reversible trousers, the single backstraps operating on both sides, on the reverse side by means of the slits 0 c, the side or hip pockets constructed with two openings (one for each side) into a single pocket, and with a double or reversible fly-front, all substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

2. In reversible trousers, the fly constructed double on both sides, with a single row of buttons between the flies on each side, and on the fly-buttoning piece of each side a row of button-holes directly over the buttons, so that each row of buttons is adapted to button the left side over the right through both rows of buttonholies in said fly-pieces, substantially as specifie In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LOUIS M. BROOK.

Witnesses:

J. R. DRAKE, EDWARD E. DUDLEY. 

